On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just a stupid comment, but ... Linux is one kernel, multiple distributions
... BSD is, what, 4 kernels now? If we worked more together instead of as
seperate camps, it might make things a bit easier, no?
Isn't there still fewer differences between *BSD operating systems
than between different GNU/Linux distributions and kernel releases? :)
Put together a *BSD "core" ... representative from each camp and try and
steer the *kernel* itself towards a more common BSD ...
I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
different goals...
Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one
example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for,
what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for
FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD
... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of stuff, it might be
asier to get support at the vendor level, no?
